Bits of Life (1921)
This film combines four short films under the title Bits Of Life. The Bad Samaritan is taken from a story in Popular Magazine in which the son of a Chinese father and a white mother is sold into slavery by his father. The boy becomes a criminal and a cunning but cruel thief. The one time he stops to help a lady in distress he is thrown in jail. Wesley Barry is the young boy and Lon Chaney the grown-up criminal.
- Date of release
- 1921-09-26
- TMDB
- 10.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 0m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- William J. Scully, Marshall Neilan, James Flood
Casting
- Wesley Barry — Tom Levitt, a boy
- Rockliffe Fellowes — Tom Levitt
- Lon Chaney — Chin Chow
- Noah Beery — Hindoo
- Anna May Wong — Toy Sing, Chin Chow's Wife
- John Bowers — Dentist's Patient
- Edythe Chapman
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